Thank you, I'm breathing, sorry couldn't resist!
Stay stable - means my sugars sit around 6 with no high spikes, I,e like a rolling wave.
Shoot for the stars - means it's up in the teens, double digit stuff, getting there rather quickly and taking forever to subside.
I've been keeping a diary and trying different foods but mostly what I have noticed is that the earlier the dinner the higher my fasting meter reading.
As for the "fat" element, I have suffered from hereditary high cholesterol for years and am on statins. So I only eat good fats and cook healthy, this is so frustrating. So that was going to be my next question to the group - why does cholesterol elevate with diabetes. Not only have they doubled my statins but they've added another one coz it's quite out of control. I'm beginning to feel like a total freak. Lin
Thanks for clarifying Lin.
Reading the whole thread when I just looked in, I would urge you to try to eat more than once a day. I don't snack, and never have done, but wasn't always great with breakfast. I have found that by reducing my carbs, and ditching anything low fat, in favour of full fat versions, of yoghurt, for example, my condition is much improved. At diagnosis, which to be fair, was only in October, by cholesterol was highlighted as being elevated. Like you, I was concerned about fat consumption in the light of that. However, the reality is my cholesterol readings reduced, to very good levels. The second A1c I had done only included a total cholesterol +lipids scores, so it was more difficult to make a direct comparison! but although my total cholesterol had increased a bit, my triglycerides had reduced to quite an impressive level, so for now I'm taking heart from that. I'm next due some checks in August.
In those findings, I'm not alone. Many people have reported improvements in the cholesterol scores, in the light on trimming their carbs. I understand there is still an early school of thought which suggests carbs are more pivotal in cholesterol levels than previously understood.
Perhaps it could be a good idea to take a couple of weeks to keep a really tight diary of both your food and drink consumption, and your blood scores, then review. If you use something like myfitnesspal, that will both record what you are consuming, but also add up your calorie and other nutritional information, which could be helpful in demonstrating the fasting mode you suggest you are in. Doing this, I also lost weight. My primary objective was to get my numbers into range, but the weight I was carrying just went, without any additional effort.
I know we're all different, and I may be at a very different stage with my condition to where you find yourself, but a strict review probably makes sense, so that any decisions for change can be made in the light of personal, up to date data.
Good luck.
